Financial Aid

Now that I have been accepted, it's time to begin paperwork. I am looking forward to registering for classes (beginning January 3rd!) and have been perusing the student handbook since I received it. I have a phone meeting with a new student adviser this afternoon to assist me with all the fun aspects of being a new student: ID cards, email addresses, class registration and .... oh yeah... tuition.

I like to believe I am a fairly intelligent person, (after all I just got accepted to Northwestern, bitches! haha j/k). Yet, I am a complete idiot when it comes to financial aid paperwork.  Hopefully my adviser woman is a magical genius fairy godmother who can make sense of these documents, my loan status and (unfair) remarkably short deadlines.

Decision Day

This morning, I woke up nervous. As I sat up in bed, practically shaking with overactive anxiety, I realized I knew. I would find out today.

I got up, and went straight for my phone, something told me I had an important email.

I looked, and sure enough there was one from Northwestern entitled, " Decision". I read the short paragraph instructing me to follow a link where I could view the decision. Anxiously, I waited for my phone to load the page, where I had to sign in.

Once signed in, it instructed me to follow yet another link to the decision page. (they were really dragging out this suspense weren't they?!)

Where, I discovered this letter:

November 18, 2010
Andrea Finken
1625 West Morse
Chicago, Illinois 60626

Dear Andrea:

Congratulations on your admission to Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies' Literature -
Degree program for Winter 2011. We are pleased you have chosen to earn your degree at SCS and are
delighted to welcome you to the program.

Your official decision letter with detailed admission information and next steps has already been mailed to you
at the address indicated on your application. In the meantime, click here to indicate your acceptance or
declination of our offer of admission.Please direct question about your offer of admission to an admissions coordinator at scsadmissions@northwestern.edu.

Congratulations on your achievement and welcome to Northwestern University.

Sincerely,
Joel Shapiro, PhD
Associate Dean of Academics


WOO HOO! I just got accepted to Northwestern University!

November 8th

Mom said not to start worrying until November 8th. Well here we are. Let the worry commence. Realistically, I hope to hear something this or next week. Panic.

Shall I hold on to hope? Or expect disappointment? Either way seems stressful.

I have just been informed that decision meetings are taking place this week, and applicants can expect to begin hearing back next week. *sigh.

Events

I keep receiving emails being invited to events at Northwestern. This one actually sounds kind of interesting, though not completely related to the program I hope to get into.


Every time I get an email from Northwestern my heart skips a beat...